hello, innsbruck

i am in innsbruck. and i am tired. its been a hectic couple of days. i left salzburg the other day in the morning to go to a little town i heard about called halstatt. its a nice place, up against a lake and back against mountains. really, its just one street. one kilometer. small. and very touristy if you can believe it. seems all of austria makes 90% of its money on tourism. but i hiked a mountain and stayed the night, but it was rainy the next day so i thought id travel. so i did. i wanted to go to krimml to see the krimmle waterfalls. not easy to do. turns out, its rather easy to get public transport from almost anywhere in austria. the trouble is its hard to get anywhere directly because of this. so i had to take a train with 5 connections or so. which i almost finished before i thought i should stop and finish in the morning, so i stop in zel am see because it was the biggest town i encountered. also huge with tourism. sometimes these places dont even feel much like a town. i didnät like zel am see. so i was off in the morning, to mittersville, then some otherplace, and a finally krimml. yeah! i made it. krimml was amaying. 380 meters of waterfall which i hiked with my packs on. i got to the top and found that austria has a lot of mountain houses which you can stay at high in the alps if your willing to find it. i thought a minute about maybe doign this and hopping mountain peak to peak, but i know im not prepared for that sort of thing. besides, time is of the essence and getting on to innsbruck was a priority, so i hiked back down adn after asking a few people where exactly i was and how to get where i thought i wanted to go, a couple escorted me on bus to a place 10 or 15 km up the road to koniegsleighten or some nonsense. then to a small town called finkau i believe, high up between two mountains and a glacier in a meadow, around 1400 meters elevation. yikes. and it was small. i think the village had a population of one family. really. it functions as a family mountain resort thing. lots of guests. then another bus to zel am ziller where i met a family from belgium on holiday and hiking the alps with their two sons. s 45 minutes later northwereeed i was in jenbach, where i almost left my camera on the bus and bought a train ticket for my last leg to innsbruck for 5 euro or something. this is only an excerpt of the madnes. today though, i slept in the grass in a park for several hours. i think i looked dead. soon though to italy. yaaaawn..